A/N: Hey guys, this is Dave and I'm back for another chapter of 'Blazblue Advent'. After giving some thought, I have decide to match all three parts of the stories together if I happen to find the right one when I find the right scence for it as I was orriginally not going to add it at all. Oh yeah, I just add some lord of all the Fate, Blazblue and Mega Man series on it as well so if you're confused of one of the three franchise or all of them, this will help you a bit. Hope you guys enjoy it and without futher ado, let us begin!
Unwavering oppinons
At the NOL base, Relius sat at his desk in a dimly lit room, listening to the field operative reports as The lastest report that he recive was to his satisfaction. His face is covered in a mask, but a grin slid across his mouth.
"I see…" Relius says as he cut the tranmission and heading towards the door, the grin still in his mouth.
"Kokonoe will head into Ikagura no doubt. Time to finish my placing my pieces… and all that is left is Kushinda's Lynchpin." Relius says with joy as he grins to himself and briskly step out of the door. As soon as Relius step outs, he head straight to the labatory.
"How is the progress?" Relius ask Magnus, the only reploid in the Lab.
"If I have a good guess, it would be about 97% complete. Now all we need is minor adjustments and we good to go." Magnus answer, scanning the monitor with extra caution due to his big stature as the monitor pumped information to the minotaur from a highly sophisicated piece of machineryand try his best to not destroy it due to his massive hands.
"Hm… The conversion efficiency to gas, the seithr's purity and concentration… They're all surprassing the target values, I see… Very well done, you take after your creator well." Relius says, impressive about the Bull's intelligence in coding. One look at Mino Magnus and you think him only about strengh but have some hidden depth as well.
"…" Magnus stays quiet while continue to writing the codes when Relius mention his creator, Dr into the mix due to not want to think about that.
"Very well… I'll adjust the rest to myself." Relius says as Magnus make ways for Relius.
"So, what happens to him?" Magnus asked curriosly.
"Him?... Oh, the liquid sether right?" Relius asked, got an idea of who the Minatour's talking about.
"Yeah, that one and if I'm remember correctly, it was name 'Roy'." Magnus answer, curious about the blob and 'his' condition due to how orrignally, he was used to lure Litchi in before she's decline the offer to work for it.
"That is, well…" Relius say, thought of another way to skip this conservation entirely before found one as he done typing "The implenation is already done. It'll take more time to more fixate, though."
"What? You're telling me that you've created an Artifical in this short amount of time and already implemented it as well under the short amount of time?" Magnus asked shockingly as Relius able to build all of it in a matter of seconds. A few minutes, the Minotaur can belive but a few seconds is out of his reach.
"Creating one is easy as long as you know what you're doing!" Relius answer calmly as he types in some command "I made you and accidently, Litchi become the Observers of that… thing. Do not fret and you no longer need to ask me about it. Now take a break then, Mino."
"I see and understandable, see you later then." Magnus says as he went to the door and exit the Lab, Relius wait until the bull's foot sound no longer can hear as he opens a tranmission and call Hazama.
"My my, how rare, a personal call from Colonoel Relius Clover." Hazama greets suprisly and happily at Relius's sudden call "I better check the forecast, it might be snow tommorow. Or it could be heavy rain as well. Or maybe, maybe, it's might be the end of the world.".
"…" Relius didn't say anything for the time being for Hazama's childish personality.
"So, what is it that you want?" Hazama asked, start to get serious now.
"The device in question Is almost complete." Relius answer strraight away
"In question? You mean that job you gave Magnus?" Hazama asked confusingly.
"Yes, that one." Relius answer before odrder the Snake "Commence the Preparations!".
"Alright, alright. I will. Conservations with you are always one-sided. Well, whatever. Before your next command comes, I'll have everything prepared." Hazama says, on one hand fell dissapointment at Relius's usual talk but on the other, excited to do something on the meantime.
"Oh, and I also have a favor to ask." Relius says, have something up for the NOL captian.
"A favor?" Hazama repeats as beneath the Brim off his hat, his eyes were open and grew wide and ask "So it's a favor? Not a command?".
"Correct." Relius answer simply.
"So not only do you contact me, but you also ask me to do a favor? I better not be mudered tommrow." Hazama says, think about all the possibilities why Relius of all people would ask a favor before calms down and close his eyes "Well, if Colonel Relius wants a favor, I'll do my best to complete it".
"…" Relius stays quiet for a bit as he tell Hazama what's the favor is later.
Magnus on the oter hand, walks to the elevator that was design for him and other big cargos and press to go up once he enter and once the elevator hits it's destination, the Bull walks out before enter his room: a giant room filled with dummies for pratice, books about battle styles and war histories, a giant bed, a place where he puts his weapon downs and a tube that was orriginally for Litchi's lab as he make his way to the tube.
"How are you doing tonight, Roy?" Magnus asked roughly but gentle as he place a hand on the tube of Arakune, who didn't respond at all as he thought back of the original reason of it's purpose: To make a former member of the Sector Seven join with the NOL but fail in the end.
"I wonder why I'm even bothered with you in the first place." Magnus says honestly as aside from that fact, there's nothing intteresting about Arakune at all "Maybe because your speech pattern remind of myself that I ask them to keep you here, maybe.".
Magnus thought back of the time where he and other members were helping a man named Dr Vile destroy their world's earth out of revenge and during that time, he was the slowest talker of the group. So slow in fact, whenever he talks, he never got the chance to finish what he has to say. Someone has to interfere before he able to say it done, that is until the last moments of his life before been fall at the hands of the Legendary Megaman, Zero. That moment was bittersweet in the Bull's mind to say the least: It was the first time where he able to speak completely but it also the time where he's fall as well.
"I'll make sure to complete my mission this time and you will be proud of me, Dr Vile." Magnus says determinately to not let his creator feel disapoitment as he walks to his bed and sleeps for the night.
At the forrest at night, Bullet suddenly woke up in a pitwhere neither the cold wind or the wandering animals can find her.
"A dream… damn it… and I dreamt about that time." Bullet says angrily about the nightmare she's just endure: a dream where she's on a hospital bed due to her injury and her teams leaves her to do a mission, only for the doctors to report her later on that they're all been killed "I guess it's still too soon to forget.".
Letting out a sigh, Bullet crawled out of her sleeping bag and wiped her sweat away without knowing that her entire body was coated with sweat.
"Grggh!" Bulet shiver at the wind was blowing through the tree to chilled her bone like a certain someone's breath so she's look around to see footsteps walking out of her and decides to clied back to her sleeping bag and zipped it back.
"Looks like Bifrost stay true to his words then." Bullet says, remember before she sleeps, he mentions that he'll be leaving her alone to go do his own thing "I'll hope he'll do allright wherever he went. Now then, time to analyze what I've colletected so far.".
"The Captian is alive somewhere… judging from all the information I've gathered, there should be plenty of the truth." Bullet says as an image of Kokonoe appear on her mind "All sources indicates that Professor Kokonoe of Sector Seven knows something… I need to see her again!" Then the image of Relius shows up next "Colonel Relius Clover, the man who devised the plan. Sussposedly his goal was to taking back the Casuality Phenoma Weapon!"
"Well, I arrive at Ikagura tommorow. That's where everything will begin." Bullet finish as she went back to her sleep for the night.
"Hmmm… This Ars Mgnus seat sure are hard, aren't they? My butt hurts…" Makoto says with her butt been hurt just by sitting on a hard chair as she, Noel and Tager are on a plane, heading towards their destination: The Sector Seven headquarters.
"…" Noel didn't say anything with her eyes closed due to thinking hard about something, seemingly like she's sleeping or something like that.
"Somethin the matter, Nollers?" Makoto asked at her friend's quiet but Noel didn't do anything at all as Makoto ask a little louder "Hey, anybody home?".
"Hm? Oh… Nothing! It's nothing!" Noel says once she open her eyes panickly.
"You've been like that ever since we left Kagusutchi… you're promise you're okay?" Makoto asked worringly of her friend.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Noel says normally but her eyes says the opposite.
"Are you worried?" Makoto ask suddenly.
"Huh?" Noel says, caught off guard of what her friend just ask.
"Are you worried? About your foster parent?" Makoto ask.
"Y-Yeah…" Noel answer sadly at the thought of her foster parents and their words to her "They told me to "Go take down the NOL" I'm not surprised.. I mean… it's just the two of them. And after all the support from the NOL was cut off, it's just been… Though, I was able to have their support resumed when I decied to join the Prateroian Guard."
"Hey Noel… Are you sure that was the right choice?" Makoto asked sadly.
"What? Leaving the NOL?" Noel says, wonder what her friend talking about.
"No, joining it. Weren't they agaisnt you joining?" Makoto says.
"…" Noel thought about it for a moment while close her eyes.
"You said before that they were against you joining the Millitary Academy, didn't you? Your parents have never been fond of the NOL, right?" Makiti ask, thinking back of what her friends say during their time at the academy with Buckfire and Tsubaki.
"Yeah." Noel answer, unable to deny the fact.
"Don't worry! After all, even Jubei said he'd take care of them!" Noel says, reassure her friend.
"I know, but… You understand, don't you, Makoto?" Noel ask "When it comes to the traitors, the NOL is… well… they're vicious… " as an image of Tsubaki shown on her mind before continue "Betraying them means… death."
"…" Makoto and Nole stays silent for a bit, proccesing what the latter just said.
"Well, as far as betrayal and treachery goes, you don't have to worry about it… At least, for the time being." Makoto says, tries to comfort her friends from all her worries.
"Huh? Why's that?" Noel ask, wonder why her friend would sussgest something like that.
"Oh… That's umm… Well I can explain a little while… But there's someone who'd do a better job tha I would." Makoto answer, want to kept the details ominous.
"You mean Proffesor Kokonoe?" Noel asked.
"Well, Kokonoe would be good too, but…" Makoto says, unsure what to say until Tager pass by.
"Quiet down, you two. Don't forget you're guards." Tager says angrily at the two talking alot.
"Uh oh, we made him mad." Makoto says with puppy eyes, tries to act innocent.
"Oh, Red dev-, I'm sorry--, Mr Tager, there's actually something I like to ask you." Noel says, have something on her mind.
"What is it?" Tager asked, wonder what the blonde has to say.
"It's about the Proffesor." Noel answer.
"Kokonoe?" Tager ask with eyebrows frowning up.
"Yes. I've only heard her voice, so she is a woman… But what kind of person is she?" Noel says, want to know more about the proffesor "Makoto said you know more than she does.".
"Makoto…" Tager says blankly at the Beastkin.
"Teehee." Makoto giggle.
"It never ends with you doesn't it?" Tager says, still blankly.
"Please, Tager?" Noel asked, still want to know more about the pink Beastkin.
"Oh, Alright." Tager answer, want to end this quickly as possible "Kokonoe is… She's self-centered and foul-mouthed. She's not just completely single-minded and driven, she expect everyone to be under her, too. She sincerely believes the world resolve arround her, too. She constantly wants to upgrade people around her… like me.".
"Upgrade… People?" Noel asked, scared a bit at the fact that someone would want to upgrade people.
"You would probably call her a mad scientist. She's addicted to Silver Vine, is interested in nothing but science, and love sweets. Sometimes she just looks at everyone else with complete displain and impaitence. But she's actually a good person.".
"Um, Tager, that last bit you said didn't really match the rest of it." Makoto says, not belive the last word the Red Devil said.
"Upgrade people? Upgrade… people. Upgrade people!?." Noel says panickly, still trying to wrap her minds about those spefictic word.
"Noel is seriously freaking out." Makoto says worringly.
"I was only being honest." Tager says as he receives a phone call from Kokonoe and picks it up while turning his back to the girls, worry about what's about to come up "K-Kokonoe? Wait, let me explain first… I was only stating a frank opinon of the third party point of view…"
Kokonoe says her part and once she says done, Tager was shock at the news "What did you say, is that true?" Tager asked in shock of what he just heard.
"Hm?" Makoto hums, wonder what make the Red Devil shock.
"I don't care about that, but… Hang on, what do you mean? What happened? Hey Kokonoe?" Tager says as the pink Beastkin close her phone on the other side, ended the call.
"Did something happen?" Noel asked, worried about what the call was all about as the Red Devil turns back to them.
"We're no longer heading to Sector Seven." Tager answer.
"What?" Makoto asked schockingly with wide eyes, wonder what happened that they can no longer go there, anymore,.
"We are heading to Yakibo, the 6th Hierarichal City of the Allied Hierarchichal cities of Ikagura ." Tager says, explain where the trio are heading now.
"To… Yakibo?" Noel asked, wonder if the location they're heading that she heard is right.
"Yes. From here, we should arrive with in a day's time." Tager says, answer Noel's question and explain the rest in the same time.
"Why Yakibo?" Makoto ask, wonder why that city.
"Who knows? Even I don't know why. All she said was go to where Kagura Mutsuki is in Yakibo." Tager answer.
"Hmmm. Well, okay." Makoto says, accept the condition but felt wary about something else entirely.
"Kagura Mutsuki… Who's that?" Noel asked, forgot who Kagura is.
"Oh my g-! Noel, are you being serious?" Makoto asked, flabbergasted at her friend's forgetness.
"Do you know that person, Makoto?" Noel asked.
"Come on, NOL Guard…" Tager says, dumbfounded of Noel's forgetness.
"Hang on a minute, Noel." Makoto says as she grabs a phone and calls a number and second later, Buckfire's face appear on the scene.
"Hey Makoto, why're you calling me now?" Buckfire asked confusingly as he still run with Tora and Tao up ahead of him, the latter still carrying Ragna.
"1: Me, Noel and Tager are going to change our destination to Yakibo so if you and Ragna wanto, you two should go there and 2 and the reason why I'm calling you now: Noel's doesn't know Kagura Mutsuki." Makoto answer calmly on the first part but screams at the second part.
"…" Buckfire didn't say anything, progress what he just heard in befuddlement.
"Um, do you also know who Kagura is, Buckfire?" Noel asked, wonder what's taking the Gazelle so long to react. A moment later, Buckfire slaps his arm cannon to his face and sighs while somehow to still able to run.
"I can see why you're calling me for, Makoto." Buckfire says calmly, understand now before shouting loudly and angrily "BUT SERIOUSLY, NOEL? YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT KAGURA?"
Noel flinched at the Gazelloid's big words. Buckfire rarely ever let out a burst like that so for him to shouted such a thing, means that he can't handle it at that point anymore.
"And about Kagura, Noel." Makoto says, ready to explain reluctanly "He's the current head of the Mutsuki Family, the chief family of Duodecim. He's also the leader of the Pateroian Guards Corps and the highest commanding officer of Novus Orbis Libarinum Praetorian Guards."
"Ohh, he's the most important person out of the Praetorian Guard! I think I might have had heard of him" Noel says, realize what Makoto means by the explanation.
"Unbeliveable!" Makoto shouts annoyingly.
"Tell me about it!" Buckfire add, annoyed by this as well.
"We refer to him as Kagura the Black knight." Tager says.
"The Black knight?" Noel asked.
"Yes… "Kagura, knight of the Black Gale." Had Jin not defeated Tenjo in the Ikagura Civil War, he most assuredly have and would have been called the Hero Of Ikagura." Buckfire says, answer the question and demonstrate how good Kagura is.
"So he's quite the induval." Noel says, starting to admire Kagura now.
"Indeed… However, during the Ikagura Civil War, Kagura mysteriously dissapeared from the battlefield. I don't know why myself." Tager says.
"Oh, I see. So is this Kagura person strong, then?" Noel asked.
"I've never traded blows with him personally. He would typically share the battlefield with someone on Azrael's level…" Tager answer.
"Azrael?" Noel asked, wonder about who that could be.
"Uh, forget I said that." Tager says, want to not bring up Azrael anytime soon "As far as his fighting abillity goes, word is he's a class on his own… Even the Duodecim.".
"Sussposedly he's even stronger than Jin himself." Buckfire adds.
"But why is Kagura in Yakibo?" Noel asked.
"Nollers…" Makoto sighs with her eyes closed.
"In case you don't know, Kagura is the Lord of the Allied Hierenchical cities of Ikagura." Buckfire adds, cover for Makoto.
"Oooh, that's right! That's why he's in Yakibo! Of course!" Noel says once she relaize what it means.
"At least you understand why though at the very least!" Buckfire says, happy that Noel able to know why but still felt dissapointment of what he heard earlier.
"It appears that you already know full well that the 6th Hierenchical city of Yakibo is the current home of Ikagura's central government." Tager explains what Yakibo's meaning is.
"Oh, I see… And you said 'lord'. So i assumed the Mutsuki family is in Yakibo." Noel concludes based on the details that gathered.
"Good guess, but wrong regardless!" Buckfire says unfortunately.
"That's beacuse the Mutsuki family is in the 1st Hierenchical city, where the general headquarters are." Makoto adds.
"Well at any rate, we are heading straight for Ikagura. You all can relax and get some rest until we arrive." Tager reports.
"Good to hear from you guys, see you three later." Buckfire says as he close the phone, end the call before resume to follow Tora and Tao.
"See you later too, Buckfire." Noel says, even though he can no longer her her.
"I've already rest plenty… hm… My butt." Makoto moans.
"Oh, hey, Makoto! Why don't we go get ssome food? I'm feeling hungry. You should join us too, Tager." Noel says, feel like she want something for a while and offer some with Tager as well.
"I appologize, but I must schedule to oil my..." Tager says, turns down the offer.
"Okay then, C'mon, Makoto let's go. Unless… do you want me to cook with everyone?" Noel says interrupt Tager and offer to cook something.
"Wait! Don't do that Nollers." Makto answer, dread at the thought of Norl's cooking. It was so bad that just a bite of it can make you feel like barf as the Beastkin thought 'Why did Buckfire has to leave the call right now?'.
"I'll even make enough for the pilot and crew." Noel says.
"No, no no. you'll kill us all." Makoto screams out as the plane continue its flight to Ikagura.
"Leaahhh!" Vulturon yawned awakenly as he open his eyes and look at the clock in his room to see the time: 6:45.
"Another day, another time." Vulturon says simply as he gets out of his bed and fold it neatly before leave his room and heading to the kitchen to make some breakfast as he looks around to see what he could make.
"What to make? What to make?" Vulturon asked himself, wonder what to make as he open the fridge to find some frozen sphagetti that's enough for breakfast.
"Hm, this would do." Vulturon says as he took it and place it on the oven, turn it on and place the timer to 15 minutes as he went to the lab while waiting for his breakfast as he open up the portal to see the same white forrest as before.
"Looks good and staple." Vulturon says while checking to make sure there's no error on this machine as he put a hand on his beak "Now, who do I sent over?"
He need to be careful with his decision as whoever he sent could attract some people from whatever world they able to visit and as a result, the portal's been revealed to everyone from the other world to go and he doesn't want that to happen at all due to circumstances so he needs to be careful with who he sent when an idea pop up to him.
"I got it." Vulturon says as he brought out his guitar and summons Fenri and a hyena reploid to him. The hyena reploid has a sandy brown and black and some spot red armor with vents and exhaust holes around his body but most of them are on his back. His arms are white and feet are sandy brown with black claws. His mouth are also black with some red as well. His shoulders can spew out a small amount of flames but he tend to open one of them usually .
"What do you want us to do, Boss?" The Hyena asked calmly, wonder why Vulturon summon the two right now.
"I need you two to deliver something, that's all." Vulturon answer normally.
"That's it? Nothing else?" Fenri asked in disappointment of the Boss's seemingly simple request.
"Here's the thing: the thing I want you guys to deliver is from another world so you two have to navigate through it to find the owner and return it." Vulturon explains what the thing he want to deliver's detail.
"I see, and do we need to study about that world or not?" The Hyena asked, intterest of what the other world has to offer.
"If you want to, you can Hyenard." Vulturon answer generously as he grabs the gem, a tracer and an communicater to the two "Here, the gem's the package that needs to be delivered, the tracer helps you two identified the owner much more easier and the communicater is use to call me to open your way home.".
"With how the gem looks, why don't you keep it Boss? I can see why you want to return it but you can also keep it to yourself sp why don't you?" Fenri asked curriously on why his boss doesn't keep it to himself in the first place.
"I'm not to keen on keeping an item from another world at all, that's all." Vulturon answer honestly as he grabs some hoods and hats and toss to them "If that world doesn't have animal people or reploids, wear those to keep you guys safe."
"Got it, Boss. Let's go, Fenri." Hyenard says as he put on his hat and close the open shoulder before wear the hood and walk through the portal first, arrive to the forrest to look around the white trees for a bit.
"Alright." Fenri says as he do the same and the two reploids walk through the forrest to find the gem owner as Vulturon close the portal just in case.
"Hope you two do well." Vulturon says as he went back up as he went back to the kitchen to see it's just been 5 minutes that he left as he went about his day on home while the reploids were busy on their duty of delivering.
"Aaaahhh!" Rin yawned loudly as she awakes, rubbing her eyes to see the bright sunlight that shine on her room before look at her calendar to see that today's Wendesday, aka school day.
"Another day, another school." Rin says uncomfartably as she gets out of her bed and go change her clothes from her pajamas to her school uniform that consist of a long black skirt, a white shirt and a brown jacket with a red tie on the middle of the jacket as she ties her hair with two black ribbons tie on her hair as she walk downstair to her living room and memories were filled back at the first time she met Ragna. It was during the beginning of the five Holy Grail war where every master around the city has to summon a Servant to serve them and fight each other for the Holy grail. She's a Master as well and want to do it for her descead father so she summons one, which is Ragna on this very room and they spend a few days together to get the grail and along the way, the two fall for each other and have express it through the most intimate way possible ( A/n: for the sake of the rating and spoilers of Fate Azure Sky, I'll not going to add any stuff invovle that at all. I'll leave it to you readers imagination or if not, read chapter 17 of Fate Azure Sky for more info.). Once the war was over, Ragna was transported back to his world but not before Rin left a good kiss to him.
"Oh, just looking back at the room make me miss him already." Rin says happily, blushing madly just at the fact that she and Ragna had their moment together before the later's eventual leave as she snaps out of it "Now's not the time, I need to get prepared more."
So she go and prepare for school, not knowing that a chance to see the Grim Reaper is coming to her.
At the forrest on morning, Bullet was just walking when she found a bunch of vessel on her way as she bents down to examine them.
"An Ars Magnus Vessel? At this low attidude? And at this hearing... Are they headed for Ikagura?" Bullet asked in wonder of the vessels before stuble to a familiar one. "Wait… I recognize that one… I'm pretty sure it's from Sector Seven…"
"It doesn't matter. For now, it looks like. For now, it's look like I'm headed for the right direction… I'd better be careful… It'd be easier to lose my way in the sethir. Okay. Let's see if I can make it to that mountain before nightfall." Bullet says as she continue to go on her path to the mountain, hoping to reach her destination as soon as she can as Bifrost were watching her from a distance.
"Hmm, hope your instict is right, Bullet." Bifrost says simply as he walks away to do his stuff, prepare for what's to come.
Hyenard and Fenri were walking through the streets of Fuyuki city, looking for the owner of the Jewel as they walk by for a couple minutes until Fenri suddenly let out a sigh, which caught Hyenard off guard. He never expect someone to be yawned on the morning, especially his wolf Companion.
"Where is the owner? I'm getting tired." Fenri asked, exhausted due to have to run from the forrest to the city and his lack of sleep.
"We only been here for a couple mintues and you already tired." Hyenard says in disbelief of what the just said. Wolfs are tend to be fast and so does Fenri, with only the Hyena come second so hearing that in the first place sound ridicolous.
"I've just rudely awoken by Boss, that's all." Fenri says groanly.
"Why didn't you sleep while you're not on duty then, Fenri?" Hyenard asked plainfully. Despite they're been reploids, they also act like humans and thus, need sleeps as well whether it's on normal or other side of the realm.
"I didn't feel like then." Fenri answer to which, Hyenard shakes his head in dissapointment. Meanwhile in a street nearby, Rin as walking through there as well to head to her school, Homumoura Academy.
"I just hope things will went out okay." Rin says hopefully as she didn't aware her surrondings while walking and after a few seconds, she's bumped into Hyenard as a result, the former fall down with her bag nearby while the later barely stand still from the bump with minor injury.
"Are you allright, Miss?" Hyenard asked gently as he lent a hand to Rin, to which she accepts it.
"I'm fine, sir. I'm just careless a bit, that's all." Rin answer embarresly as Hyenard pulled her up as she stand up and dust off her uniform.
"Jeez lady, you need to be at least caution your area for that not to happen or you may end up dead due to that." Fenri says rudely, which make Hyenard turn to him in shock.
"Fenri, that's how you treat a girl?" Hyenard asked, flabbergasted at his companion's rude talk "If you keep this up, your talk will come back and bite you eventually.".
"Whatever." Fenri answer, not care about the warning that much as he turns his head away from the Maverick and the girl.
"Sorry for my friend's rudeness, miss. He's tend to be foul-mouthed." Hyenard apologize.
"I understand, mister. I'll make sure to be careful myself next time." Rin says as she picks up her bag and run as fast as possible to school as Hyenard turn to Fenri.
"You really need to learn more about respect, Fen…" Hyenard says as he opens the Tracer to stop his word in surprise of what he saw.
"Hm, something matter, Hyenard?" Fenri says, notice the sudden silence of the Hyena before look at the tracer to see that it pointing to Rin "So she's the owner of the gem then?".
"Seems like it then." Hyenard answer as the two runs to Rin as fast as they can while not trying to run on four legs for anyone nearby to notice and remove the gem from the tracer and hide it so that nobody can see it "Hey, Girl!".
"Hmm?" Rin wonders who's calling her before turn to see the reploids, still in their disguise running towards her "Oh, it's you two! What do you want?".
"You drop this from our collision." Hyenard answer, calmly as he can to not let her know that he's lying as he hand the gem to Rin, who was surprise so much that she even believed the lie and felt embarrassed to drop something like that in the first place.
"Oh, thank you for picking it up for me." Rin says shy as she grabs the gem from Hyenard's hand and put it on her bag.
"May I ask, why did that gem suddenly change colors constantly?" Fenri asked, want to know more about it.
"Oh, that?" Rin says, wonder what to say now before come up the words "It was an item that was been past down from generation to generation so I don't know as well."
"I see, now let's go Ragna." Fenri says, understand what she meant before realize his mistake of wrong name "Oh, I mean Hyenard. Sorry, I mistake you for someone else."
"That's alright, Fenri. Let's go." Hyenard says in understand as the two walk away from Rin, who was left confused by the mistake that the wolf just spoke.
'Ragna? Is that who he thinks mistakenly about that I think it is?' Rin thought, Wonder if the one that Fenri mistake for and the man she fell in love are the same person as she tails them to know more. Sure it means she'll be late too school but she barely care about it now. She promise that she'll find a way to get to Ragna and if they happen to know something about him then it's worth the hassle.
"So, what do you think about this world so far Fenri?" Hyenard asked, want to make a conservation on the way back to the portal with the wolf, which didn't escape Rin's hearing at all.
'So they are from different worlds, then? That's good but which one are they from?' Rin thought, happy that she got a clue of where they are from but don't know if Ragna is In their world or not.
"I find it boring but I shouldn't be harsh, the technology here seems old but useable at the very least and the view of city and people looks refresh compare to the cities of our world and last but not least, it's not at least a little barren like some streets in our world are." Fenri answer, describe the goods that he could see around this world as much as possible. It's not like he hates this world at all, it's just that the wolf perfer battle over anything else except history about war.
"Consider your cup of tea is always on battle and nothing else, then it make sense that you would say that." Hyenard says, know well of Fenri's style due to many times working together by Vulturon.
"Yeah, you could say that." Fenri says emberassly.
"But why did you mistake me for this Ragna earlier?" Hyenard asked, wonder what the mistake is all about.
"Oh, that's because your first name that we don't speak of reminds me the color of red and and the red color reminds me of Ragna's signature coat, that's all." Fenri answer, which earns a sigh from Hyenard and a hopeful eyes from Rin.
'If I remember right, Ragna's signature coat is red as well so if it's who I think then…' Rin thought, feeling more hoppeful than before.
"That's the worst possible connection I have ever heard in my entire life." Hyenard says bluntly.
"Well, what do you expect from me though?" Fenri ask casually.
"Eh, I guess you make a good point." Hyenard answer, don't want to make thing more awarkd than it already is before ask "But the Ragna that you mention is Ragna the Bloodegde, right?".
"Bingo!" Fenri answer happily, which make Rin smiles at the conformation of the info.
'So they're from Ragna's world, that's amazing.' Rin thought happily at this. She has a chance to see Ragna again and she will not let this chance go to waste as she went up to the two once the three went by an alley "Um, hey you two."
"Huh?" Hyenard gasp as he and Fenri turn to see Rin behind him as he ask in confusion "It's you! Why are you here, girl?"
"Yeah, you should go to school by now but why are you here?" Fenri added, just as confuse as Hyenard is.
"Well, let's just say: I know you two secret." Rin answer with a cheeky smile, want to make sure the two will do anything she wants in order to not let it out and unsuprisingly, the two felt tensed after hear the info.
"Y-you know our secret?" Fenri asked, wonder how this girl knows about their secret in the first place.
"Yep, I know the fact that you two are from a different world." Rin answer, pressing the two more than she already done.
"A-Are you gonna tell everyone about this?" Hyenard asked, hoping that Rin doesn't tell anyone about this info as the Mage put a finger on a face, think about it for a moment.
"Well, I won't unless you two do one thing for me." Rin answer once she thought done.
"W-What would that be?" Fenri asked, not liking where this is going.
"Take me to your world and I won't tell." Rin answer, trying to cover the fact that she knows someone there.
"A-Are you sure? I mean, you have school so shouldn't you focus on that instead?" Hyenard asked, want to make Rin change her mind about this offer. The two reploids would do nearly everything else but taking some stranger to the crossfire into their world.
"I ask them that I will leave for a few days to take care some buisness." Rin answer, counter what the Hyena's words back at him before she add "I know you're trying to make me change my mind, but you need to try harder than that to do it since once I decide on something, I never quit easily at all."
"So in other worlds, you won't take no for an anwser, right?" Fenri asked, putting two and two together.
"That's right." Rin answer pridefully.
"Give us one second please." Hyenard says as he and Fenri went a few meters away from Rin but still in her sight as the two dicuss about it "So, what do you think we should do about this, Fenri?"
"I say, we run out of here while we can as fast as we can." Fenri sussgest.
"But she'll tell everyone about this and they'll be all over our ass about that. We can't risk it." Hyenard denies.
"What about we make her forget that this never happen." Fenri sussgest again, hoping this one will be good.
"And how are we going to do that in the first place, Fenri?" Hyenard asked, wonder if the wolf has a way of erase the memories and the face that Fenri tells everything he needs to know.
"I guess you make a point there, Hyneard." Fenri answer, feel emberrass about his own dumb request.
"Hm, what about talk to boss about this then?" Hyenard sussgest, which make Fenri think about that for a while.
"Hm, you got a point there. He could help us with this situation and he never get mad at stuff before." Fenri answer, agrees with the sussgestion before ask "And what do we do about the girl?"
"We scheldue her to the meeting point once she's done with school." Hyenard answer.
"That's sound good." Fenri says as he and Hyenard went back to Rin once they're done.
"Have you guys make your decision yet?" Rin asked impaitently.
"Yeah, we have make our decision." Fenri answer.
"Once you're done with your school, meet us at the entrance of Eizbern Forrest and we'll take you there." Hyenard added, which make Rin smile softly.
"I'll accept that, Mr Hyeanrd and Mr Fenri." Rin says, remember what the two call each other before as she waved at the two "The Name's Rin Toshaka, I'll meet you two there later."
"Alright, Rin. See you there as well." Hyenard says as Rin start run forwards to make it to school in time, leaving the two reploids there, wonder what to do next.
"Now, what do we do from here on out, Hyenard?" Fenri asked, wonder what to do next as Hyenard. If they're wait for the entire day at the forrest, people will susspect them immideatly so they need to do something before do just that.
"What about we go explore more about this world's history?" Hyenard sussgest.
"That's sound good, let's go." Fenri agrees as they walk away from the alley while Rin was walking to school with a happy face.
"Yes, I finally got a chance to see Ragna again and it didn't have to do anything with the Holy Grail at all." Rin says happily before shouted on the sky "I hope you're hearing this, Ragna, because we're getting to renuite each other again."
"Achoo!" Ragna sneeze lightly as he, Buckfire, Tao and Tora are at the hot springs, rest before continue their journey to Ikagura. The former two are relax on one side while the latter two were splashing water on
"Something wrong, Rags?" Buckfire asked, wonder what make the Grim Reaper sneeze when the two are in the middle of hot springs.
"I'm fine, Bucks. I just feel like someone calls my name diffirently than others." Ragna answer while scrubbing his nose a bit.
"Consider that everyone around the world have different opinons about stuff, I say it could be likely that's the case." Buckfire says.
"Yeah, I could see that as well." Ragna says as he went back to relax in the springs when he have a thought on his mind of what it could be 'But it felt like someone I knew. It could be Rin but I'm not too sure about this.'
"Woohoo, I'm going to get you, Tora." Tao says happily as she splash more water at Tora as the day just goes on by its ownm without Ragna knows that he gets a chance to see his lover again.
At Relius's office, the Mad Pupetter was looking through the files when a knock was heard from his door.
"Come in." Relius says as the door open to reveal Magnus, who is looking very pissed off at something.
"Where is he?" Magnus ask angrily, want to know about someone's location.
Relius stand up on his desk before turn to the Bull as he ask "What are you talking about?".
"Don't play dumb! I'm not as stupid as you think I am, so where is he?" Magna says more angrily than before.
"Oh, you mean the Liquid Sethir, right?" Relius ask once he realize what Magnus means as the latter nods at the question before Relius answer "Well, I sent it to the sewers…"
"Why would you do it in the first place?" Magnus asked, less angry and more shocked at the fact.
"I don't understand… Why are you so angry? It's not like thhat thing belongs to you." Relius says, ignore the Bull's question to point something else.
"That may be true, but that thing is the only thing that kept me calm to this point." Magnus says grudingly.
"I see, well I'll find something else for you to calm yourself but until then, continue your work." Relius says, promise to do it once he got a chance as Mgnus lets out a sigh.
"Alright, sir." Magnus says as he walks out of the door and continue his day while Relius still continue his work.
"That was fast!" The man that speaks with Kokonoe on the call before says happily as the pink Beastkin enter his office.
"Well, at least I never need to exercise again." Kokonoe says, not wanting to exercise any time sooner.
"Right... Anyways, welcome." The person says, unsure what to say now.
"I didn't come here for a visit. I can't stand the idea of being in your debt, Kagura." Kokonoe says at the thought of the latest time that she visit him.
"Don't be like that! My men are bringing the others, as well. Besides, you saw this coming. That's why you sent over your package, right?" Kagura says, reassure Kokonoe while asking her about the pacakge that she sent ot him.
"Hmph. That was contingency. If nothing came up, I would have taken it back." Kokonoe says simply.
"An ounce of preparation is an ounce of the cure, I guess." Kagura says before ask "So what's in the package anyway?"
"Well, that thing…" Kokonoe says with her normal face but continue once she showed her evil cat grin "Is my secret weapon!"
At a device somewhere in the Yakibo's NOL headquarters that resemble coffin lies inside a girl with long red hair who just awoke as she open her eyes. The young girl was familiar with living in this space for a long time now but it was inside of it boring and she couldn't say it was comfortable.
"Yawn." the girl yawned as Kokonoe just arrive and take a look on her.
"Celica, how ya feeling?" Kokonoe asked as Celica open her eyes to see the pink Beastkin.
"Oh, Kokonoe! Haha, well, I'm doing fine as you can see, I'm a little sleepy!" Celica answer, still felt tired.
"I see, sorry for leaving you in there for so long." Kokonoe says, felt sorry a bit about the condition that Celica has to go through.
"It's okay! But I got a lot of motion sickness on the way over and it was SUPER boring. When can I get out of here?" Celica asked, wonder when she's getting out of the device.
"Hmmm, let me check." Kokonoe says as she checks on the numbers of the device before answer "Well, in term of numbers, you're already good to go. You should be realesed by this afternoon."
"Really?" Celica asked excidetly that she gets to get out soon.
"Yeah, but don't strain yourself." Kokonoe answer.
"Ummmm Kokonoe? Can I ask a favor?" Celica asked.
"What is it?" Kokonoe says, wonder what the favor is.
"When I get out… I want to visit somewhere.." Celica answer, want to visit an old place.
Back At the Pseuderoid's Home, Vulturon is seen reading a book while listen to a song on his headphones in his room. As he was flipping the next page, the urge of singing has come to the Vulture.
"Most, most people would relase you. Most, Most people don't change, they only get old. So if I let you back in close, will you hurt me?" Vulturon sang on the song that he's hearing smoothly as the communicator rang up, making the Psuderoid pick It up while pulling off his headphone and close the book "Yello, how the's job I assigne you two doing?"
"Boss, we have a good and bad news." Hyenard answer as him and Fenri were at a library, reading some history books about the world they are in.
"Oh, what's the news then?" Vulturon asked, wonder what the news all about.
"The good news is we find the owner of the gem and return it." Hyenard answer, start with the good before continue on the bad "And the bad new is she wants us to take her to our world."
"I see, I'll think about it for a moment." Vulturon says, find the bad news to be a little annyonace more than anything as he thinks about the situation while ask "And where are you two right now?"
"We're at a library, reading some history about this world." Hyenard answer.
"And we find some stuff interresting about this world as well." Fenri add, still read the book that he's holding.
"Oh, really? Tell me then." Vulturon request, his curiousity spiked up after hearing that.
"This world has something called the Holy Grail War, which is a ritual have been around for some time. It's a competition that decides the ownership of the Holy Grailthrough intense battle royale. It was etablished by the Three Founding Familiesof Tohsaka, Matou, and Einzbern, and the magical community at large knows it as a competition to win a Holy Grail." Hyenard answer, explain the details he learn so far from the book that he's reading.
"So magic is in that world as well, huh? Haven't heard of it in a long time." Vulturon says, remember that the world that the three brothers are living once have a rich resource of magic but nowadays, it's rarer due to circumtances that invovle the history of the Black Beast.
"It seems like it, boss." Hyenard says simply.
"Wait, one of the Families that etablish the Holy Grail War is Toshaka, right?" Fenri asked, realize something among the lines.
"Yeah, what about it?" Hyeanrd says, wonder what the wolf thought of.
"Isn't it the same last name of that Rin girl as well?" Fenri asked, thought back of Rin's full name.
"Yes, what about…." Hyenard answer, still confuse until it clicked on to him.
"So the owner of the gem is also a family member of an history event as well, huh?" Vulturon asked, realize the fact sooner than the Hyena reploid does.
"It seems right." Hyenard answer once that info sink on to him.
"Hmm, wonder if she knows how to fight or not if she's a family member of it or she just relies on backup." Fenri says, intterest on if Rin knows how to fight or not due to what he read.
"What makes you say that, Fenri?" Vulturon asked, wonder why the wolf speak of that.
"Because according to history of the war, Seven magiare chosen by the Grail as Mastersand, with support from the Grail, allowed to summon seven Servantsto do battle. The winning pair, 'supposedly', will claim the Holy Grail and use it to grant their wish or wishes." Fenri answer, emphasize a bit on the supposedly on his world for bigger detail while explain other infos.
"So in short, Magic users are been choose to fight for the Grail and they could summon Servants to help them in win the war and get the Grail." Vulturon says, concludes from what he had heard so far.
"That's true, boss." Fenri agrees on the conclusion that his boss make.
"But what do you mean by when you said supposedly, Fenri?" Vulturon asked, remember the emphasize that the wolf put on that word.
"Because of its true purpose." Fenri answer, fliping the next page.
"So there's a different purpose than winning a Holy Grail into it as well, huh?" Vulturon asked, wonder what the true purpose is.
"Yes, The ritual's true purpose is to reach a place that's been called Akashaby coalescing the energy of the fallen Servants into an energy source powerful enough to burn a hole to the Root. However, given the intended purpose, the system has a serious flaw: Reaching Akasha would require the energy of all sevenServants at once. At the same time though, only a Servant, not a Master, is capable of grasping the Grail and completing the ritual. As such, the final Master, instead of killing their Servant and reaching the Root, must keep their Servant alive to claim an energy source that is much weaker, but can still grant extremely far-reaching wishes to the winning Master and Servant pair." Fenri says, answer and explain the question at the same time which make Hyenard shock at that.
"Wow, I never knew that it would be quite difficult to get there." Hyenard says in shock.
"Well, Rare people knows that the system is been flawed so it's understandable to say the least." Fenri says simply, understand the circumtances of the surface.
"Yeah, I guess you make a good point." Hyenard says, agree as well.
"But what did you mean when you said Root, Fenri?" Vulturon asked, wonder that word.
"It must have been involve to this Ashaka place have them but I can't find anything about it so I don't know." Fenri anwser, looking through the book to see nothing about Ashaka at all.
"Wait, I think I saw it before, give me a minute." Hyenard says as he flips the page to find the place until he found it "Ahh, there it is."
"What did you find, Hyenard?" Vulturon asked.
"The Root that mention in Fenri's book is actually mean by the Swril of the Root,
which is a metaphysical location that acts as the "force" that exists at the top of all theories in every dimension possible." Hyenard answer. The page that have this info may been write in cryptic language but due to they being repolid, they're been given the ability to decrypt it.
"So it's like the Takamagahara system but to dimensions instead of shifts." Vulturon says, remember the old book that he found and read about the system a long time ago.
"That's exactly it but there's more to it." Hyenard says, remember that book as well before continue "It also is the place from where all souls, including those of Heroic Spiritsrecorded on the Throne of Heroes, originate from and to where they return after death as well."
"So in short, the Root is not only the dimensinal controller and the Holy Grail's birth place but also the equavilent of the Pseudo Space in our birth world and Heaven in other worlds and summon as well huh? That's wild and cool at the same time." Vulturon says, felt amaze on the Root.
"It could be dangerous indeed for whoever evil gets to the Root." Hyenard says, fear of what could possiblity happen to other dimension as well as the one he and Fenri standing.
"Well, it's a good thing that the Grail's been destroy once and for all to not let it happen again." Fenri says, felt relived at that to say the least.
"The Grail's been destroyed? How?" Vulturon asked, wonder how did the Grail been destroy.
"It's because in the last Holy Grail War, a pair and a few other Masters have destroy it once and for all in their world." Fenri answer, reading the article of the War that happen a few weeks ago.
"Wow, work so hard to get a wish and suddenly, you destroy it for good. What a bummer." Vulturon says, dissapointed at the waste potential of obtian a wish.
"Well, it's actually good instead." Fenri says, which earn a confuse brow from Hyenard and Vulturon on the other side as well.
"Let me guess: It was actually a monster all along that could destroy the world once and for all and was awaken by the wining pair, which could also be evil as well, so they did the right thing and destroy it along defeat the pair, right?" Vulturon guess on what Fenri could mean by what he said.
"That's a long guess but yes, it's true on nearly everything except for the wining pair, which were killed instead." Fenri anwser.
"That's fill me with relief." Hyenard says with a sigh, felt good about the monster being destroyed.
"Although that war was an intteresting one indeed." Fenri says, making Hyenard and Vulturon confuse.
"What do you mean by it, Fenri?" Vulturon asked.
"Beacuse the war instead of history persons for Servants like in other Holy Grail Wars, it's instead fill with people from other worlds." Fenri anwser.
"Wait, people from other worlds just come to be Servants of the Masters?" Hyenard asked, amaze by the fact. Opening another world is one thing, but bring different person from different worlds is another.
"I guess so." Fenri anwser as a lightbulb come into Vulturon's head.
"That's right, I figured out." Vu;turon says excidetly.
"You figured out what, boss?" Fenri asked, wonder what his boss just figure out.
"I'll explain but make sure to bring the girl out as well so I can diccus." Vulturon says as he ends the call and the duo clean their mess and make their way to the entrace of Einzbern forrest.
At night in the forrest of the home world, Hakumen was walking around when he suddenly stops, feeling something familiar coming to him as the knight turns around.
"What do you want, Harlequin?" Hakumen asked as Rachel, Nago And Gii walk up to him.
"Bravo, I should have expected that you wouls have sense that I was here. Would you care for some tea?" Rachel says excidetly.
"I've got no time to listen to your nonsense. If you have something to say, be quick about it." Hakumen says rudely, want to finish the conservation with the Vampire as soon as he can
"Aren't you in a hurry? Why not act more like a gentleman, Mr. Hero?" Rachel asked slyly.
"Hmm…" Hakumen sighs as he walks away, not interrest on talking with Rachel anyomre.
"Phantom… Have you noticed her?" Rachel asked seriously as Hakumen stop on his track and turn to the girl.
"The cat had fill me in." Hakumen answer simply.
"And mention that she's a mage?" Rachel asked.
"I came into contact Phantom alongside Valkenhayn. I cannot be mistaken. That's her." Hakumen answer, confident of know who she is.
"Valkenhayn agrees with that assessment. I, too, ran into her recently… I hold that same option." Rachel says, remember her encounter with Phantom.
"I see. Don't dwell on it. We will end this." Hakumen says, understand the meaning of Rachel's word "The cat will handle the fight. But should the worst happen, I will carry out that duty.
"Is this friendship? Or is this compassion for your brother in arms?" Rachel asked, wonder what the relationship of Jubei and Hakumen are as the knight stay silent, wonder what to say next.
"That is none of your concern." Hakumen answer after find the words to speak.
"Perhaps, but she has the Imperator and someone else. That might be a challenge even for the two of you." Rachel says, remember the two person that accompined Phantom.
"Indeed, that is true." Hakumen agrees on that statement.
"Oh, that's very honest of you… I'm surprised." Rachel says surprisingly.
"It's not an overmestiation. I'm well aware with the extent of her power. If she is in her perfect form, then the cat and I may not able to match blows with her." Hakumen says, think carefully about Phantom's full potential.
"Yes… I may not able to observe you during the conflict." Rachel says honestly.
"Hmm. You're being quite honest as well." Hakumen says surprise by her tone.
"With the Imperator on her side… To say that i would able to observe even in those conditions would be an overstaement." Rachel says as the image of Relius and Hazama appear next "And then there's YuukiTerumi and Relius Clover… We cannot afford to take them lightly as well." Then an image of Dizzy appear last "And that's not even to mention the bat that's helping them as well. I am no fool. I have nothing to gain through vain glory."
"It appears you're given the situation careful consideration. Why have you come to me?" Hakumen asked, wonder why she wants to see him.
"Your destination is Ikaruga, correct?" Rachel asked.
"That should be obvious, given our conservation." Hakumen answer.
"Then we'll turn the Imperator's plans to our advantage." Rachel says.
"What do you have in mind, Harlequin?" Hakumen asked, wonder how to do something like that.
"It will be a dangerous gambit, but there's a cance of success." Rachel answer with smile, hoping the gambit is worth it.
At Tsubaki's office, she was minding her own buisness when a thought came up to her.
'Wonder how Bifrost doing, hope he's doing alright.' Tsubaki thought by a piece of her remain consicous that's remain on her due to the Pseuderoid's word as the door was being knocked on, bring her hypnotized mind back to reality.
"Come in." Tsubaki says as Hazama opens the door and step into the room "Captian… How may I help you?"
"I'm one of your surbodinates, you know. There's no need to address me so formally." Hazama says.
"And how may I help you, Captian Hazama?" Tsubaki asked, wonder what the Captian's here for.
"Have it your way…" Hazama says grudingly before answer "I believe I still had not the chance to congratulate you. Major Tsubaki Yaoi. Congratulation on being promoted two ranks. I always knew you would surprass me in the rank. It's to be expected from a scion of the Yaoi family."
"I'm just a hero curiated by you, aren't I? I'm not happy at the slightest bit about it." Tsubaki says coldly, knowing well the Captian's joke nature.
"Don't be so prickly. I'm being totally sincere in my congratulations." Hazama says, which didn't change Tsubaki's emotion in the slightest.
"So what scheme of yours propelled into take me into this rank?" Tsuabki asked blankly.
"Oh, you know thr military! They love ceremory, Tsubaki Yaoi, daughter of the Yaoi Family of the Duodecim, driving Ragna the Bloodege out of Kagutsuchi…" Hazama says normally but continue once his right eye open "And who honarably put her own skin on the line to protect the Imperator, who just so happened to be there…" Then finsh with his eyes closed "It would be bad if the NOL didn't make abig deal out of that. Right, 'Major Tsubaki Yaoi?'"
"Why you…" Tsubaki says grudginly.
"We lost our Hero of Ikagura, so we need another paragon to the point the troops point at, keep up their morale at all. A hero doesn't need real acomplishment to do that." Hazama says.
"Cut the chatter and tell me what you're here for." Tsubaki says, want to end this as fast as she can.
"I told you. I'm here to congratulate you.." Hazama says but remember something as he pulls out some paper and give to Tsubaki "Oh, I almost forgot. Forgive me. Here are your orders from the Imperator. Please review them."
Tsubaki checks the paper for a few seconds before her eye went wide "I'm to go… to the Allied Hierarchical City Of Ikaruga?"
"Oh, is that so? Those are orders from the Imperator, so I wouldn't know." Hazama anwser before have a thought on his mind "However, we at Intelligence Department have also recived information that Ragna the Bloodegde and maybe the traitor Buckfire the Gazelle are headed for Ikagura. That may be the reason."
"Which means… Major Jin Kisigari may be headed there, as well." Tsubaki says, concluded from the information alone as she orders "Please tell the Imperator that I hve received the orders."
"Understood." Hazama says he opens his eyes and grins evilly.
"You're dismissed, Captian." Tsubaki says.
"Well then, I'll take my leave." Hazama says as he prepare to leaves the room.
"Captian..?" Tsubaki says, wonder something.
"Yes?" Hazama says, turn back to her.
"How does one recive an audience with the Imperator?" Tsubaki asked.
"Who knows? I think she's out on buissness at the moment." Hazama answer.
"I see. I'm sorry for intterupting you." Tsubaki says.
"It's quite alright. I'll see you later." Hazama says as he leaves the room, leaving Tsubaki some private time.
"Jin. Rrgh!" Tsubaki says grudingly but the unhypnotize part of her conscious can't help but wonder 'I wonder if Bifrost is also heading to Ikagura as well.'
Meanwhile, Hazama just close the door of Tsubaki's room to the halls of the NOL base.
"Whoa, there. Miss Tsubaki Yaoi is quite worked up, isn't she? Now then…" Hazama says as he turns around to see Magnus stand there "Oh!"
"Captian Hazama…" Magnus says, surprsie to see the Captian there as well.
"If it isn't the bull Mino Magnus. Fierce as always." Hazama says, starting to troll the bull.
"…" Magnus didn't say anything as he close his eyes and walk away from the snake, not wanting anywhere near Hazama at all.
"Now that's jusst rude ignoring someone like that…" Hazama says as he gets near the Minotaur's left hand, about to grab it.
"Don't touch me." Magnus says angrily.
"What a shame, to see someone like you to waste time on such garbage." Hzama says as he grabs Magnus's hand, who's looking annoyned by this.
"Let go of my hand." Magnus says, more anger than before.
"I can help you forget if you'd like." Hazama says.
"I'm fine. Now if you excuse me, I'm in a hurry. Would you please let go of me?" Magnus asked, don't want to spend more time with the Snake than it is.
"I promise after I'm done, you'll have no memories of that failure. No more mopping around. You'd finally be free of him. That's what you want, after all." Hazama says, want to have another mindless slave in action but the Bull see through it.
"Mind eater. Try it and you'll regret it later, I'm sure of it." Magnus says, knowing what Hazama trying to do next if the Minotaur accept it "Or do you intend to brainwash me and have me submit that way even though I'm loyal to the Imperator in the first place? Like that girl for example?"
"That's not nice to say someone like that. She came here and swore allegience with the Imperator of her own will." Hazama says, trying to make Magnus doesn't have that thought anymore "Isn't it the same with you? You came to this side on your own. Point is, you have your own interests to worry about."
"I guess you could say that." Magnus says, unsure of what to say else before ask "So, Captian, would you letting me by? I have too see Proffesor Relius about something."
"Well then, my apologies. Please." Hazama says as he lets go off Magnus's hand and he walk away, think about some memories of his and something else.
"The memories…" Magnus says softly while stopping.
"Hm?" Hazama hums, wonder what Magnus gonna say next.
"Where do the memories absorbed through the Mind Eater go?" Magnus asked.
"To the ends of The Boundary? Or maybe…?" Hazama says before drop it completely "Oh, who knows?"
Magnus looks at him angrily, clearly not happy with the anwser at all.
"Oh, perhaps they digested and disappear?" Hazama sussgest before give out why he think that would be the case "I mean, they have been eaten."
"Yes… Thank you." Magnus says as he leaves the place.
"Rejected… Harsh." Hazama says as Relius appears.
"What are you doing?" Relius asked.
"Oh… How emberrasing. Colonel Relius, did you see that?" Hazama says in shock as Relius was walking towards the NOL captain before he continue "She won't give me the time of day. Anyway, he headed out to your room."
"I'm doubt I'm the one he wants to speak with." Relius says.
"Indeed… Where does your buisness take you, Relius?" Hazama asked, wonder where Relius went.
"To Izayoi. I need to go over a few thing about Ikagura." Relius anwser before ask "More importantly, Hazama… Are things coming along on your end?"
"They're proceedinmgn scheldue." Hazama anwser.
"I'm leaving for Ikagura. What about No.13?" Relius ask.
"It still need some adjustments, but even in its current state, it can easily carry out its task." Hazama anwser before describe what Nu is "A Masterpiece one would expect from an artist such as yours trully. Things can countinue apace in Ikagura, I expect."
"I see…" Relius says, understand what Hazama meant.
"By the way, Relius… About Phantom… I trust things will be fine?" Hazama asked, wonder about Phantom's condition.
"Don't ask me… I only perpared the vessel." Relius anwser.
"Hmph… She's a useful pawn but isn't her soul ustable?" Hazama asked.
"Save your complains for the Imperator. She's the one who's sustaning her. Is that a;; you've asked? I'm leaving." Relius says as he's leaving to got to Izayoi.
"Hmph! That's aggrivating. How annoying!" Hazama says as he looks at his clock "Oh, look at the time! I'd better hurry up too."
So, Hazama went to do his thing, having a wild thought of what the world will be like once it's all over.
At evening in Rin's world, the Magi was packing her stuff after her walk from school to home. She was wearing her usual costume contain of a red turtleneck with a cross on the middle of the chest, a black skirt and long black stockings under brown leather flats.
"This is it." Rin says, looking to see if she needs anything or not "I have chance to see Ragna again and I won't let it go to waste at all. I will make use of it while possible."
The Toshaka family are well know for their will of want the Grail for a very long time and are experts in the use of a spell called Jewel Magecraft and a secret style of Chinese kenpo, the latter due to Nagato's emphasis in the training of not only Magecraft, but also martial arts as well. And she is no exception to all of that fact at all. But since she's destroy the Grail, she wants to see what else she want to do but before that, she has a renuion with someone she hold dear to attend to.
"Alright, now let's get going." Rin says once packaging her stuff done as she leave the house and went straight to the Einzbern forrest, the meeting point. Once she makes it there, she saw Hyenard and Fenri were talking about something while waiting for her arrival.
"But wouldn't that still be weird regardless of the circumtances?" Fenri asked, continue their conservation without notice Rin's apperance.
"Yeah but depends on how bad it is. If it's low then it could be not a problem but if it's high then yeah, it will be weird." Hyenard answer.
"Yeah, but…" Fenri was about to continue until he saw Rin walking up to them as he turn to her "Oh, you came. That's good."
"Huh?" Hyenard gasped, wonder what Fenri's sudden change as he look up to see Rin as well "Oh, didn't see you there."
"It's alright. Can we go now?" Rin asked.
"Sure, follow us." Hyenard anwser as the trio move deeper into the forrest, ready to meet up with the Hyena's and wolf's boss. After some time of walking, they reach to their destnation, which is an empty field, Hyenard gets the communicator and call. "Hey Boss, we make it to the meeting point."
"Okay, got it." Vulturon says as he cuts the communication and a portal appear in front of the trio and out comes Vulturon, who wears a black jacket that covers his arms, a mafia hat as he looks at the trio calmly and friendly to not let Rin felt susspicous "So you make it, little girl. I was wondering you might show up."
"Judging by your apperence and line, you're the boss of these two right?" Rin asked as Vulturon claps his hands.
"You got that right, girl." Vulturon anwser, amaze on how Rin able to guess right just by looks alone "Yeah, I'm the one who sent those two here as well."
"So that we could do something for the Boss and nothing else." Hyenard finish with Fenri nod on that, don't want to let Rin know about the lie that he made to her during their first meeting.
"I see, and what is this business is?" Rin asked, wonder what their doing here in the first place, which make Vulturon confuse when he heard that.
"That's none of your business, Rin." Fenri anwser, want to do the same as Hyenard as well.
"So You're names Rin then." Vulturon says to the girl which, Rin nods at the question.
"Yeah, that's my name." Rin says casually.
"So, you really want to visit to our world or not?" Vulturon asked, want to be sure if he's heard wrong.
"Yes, I do and I'll do anything you want to get it." Rin anwser dertermainlly.
"Hmph, I think I have one thing that you can do." Vulturon says after sometime of whether to do give it or not his decision.
"You do?" Rin asked hopefully.
"But before I can tell you about it, I need to ask one thing." Vulturon anwser before asked "Do you know how to fight or not?"
"Does this has to do anything with your task?" Rin asked, wonder what does this question has to do anything with the Vulture's task as Vulturon nods at the question before Rin anwser his question "Yeah, I do know how fight."
"Good." Vulturon says simply before tell her "Now for the task: I want you to fight against one of my men to prove your worthy of enter our world."
"That's it?" Rin asked, wonder of the task that Vulturon gives to her.
"Yes, that's what I want you to do." Vulturon anwser before added "But my men knows how to fight with their own ways and they can control an elemental power respectively as well so don't ever see them as pushovers in the slightest!"
"Alright, I think I can do it to prove myself." Rin says confidently, perpare herself for her match as Vulturon puts his hands on his beak, thinking of choosing who to fight her.
"You don't need to think at all boss." A voice says as Vulturon turn to the source saw Fenri looking at him seriously "Because I want to battle her."
"Are you sure about this, Fenri?" Vulturon asked, wonder if the wolf Reploid thought before head before saying that.
"I'm sure about this, Boss." Fenri anwser confidently As Vulturon was thinking whether or not to accept the Wolf's desire.
"If you say so." Vulturon says uncertainly as Fenri and Rin make their way to the field, the latter left her luggage to Hyenard. As Fnri and Rin ready to battle each other out, Hyenard grabs the luggage and makes his way to Vulturon to watch the fight before Vulturon added "Oh, that's right. Rin!"
"Huh? What is it" Rin asked, wonder what the Vulture wants now.
"You don't have to beat him automatically, you can also survive for about 3 minutes to win it as well." Vulturon anwser as he pulls out a timer and give it to Hyenard, who accept it.
"Which I'll never let that happen in the first place." Fenri shouts as he summons ice blades on to his wrists, making Rin have to be careful more about this.
'Alright, I'll have to either beat Fenri or survive to 3 minutes to get my chance to go to Ragna's world.' Rin thought on what she has to do as she took a deep breath before fcous on her opponent 'Whatever I do, I must make sure to not fall down quickly at all cost. Ragna, I'm doing this for you.'
"On my mark." Hyenard says, start to make the battle offical as Rin and Fenri took their stance "Get set." The two are more focus for the battle as Hyenard shouts while press on the timer "Let's Rock!"
(Cue Nothing Beasts from Megaman Zero 4)
Fenri makes the first move by running up to Rin to slash her, who dodge it to attack the wolf with a kick to his face, damage him slightly.
"Ouch." Rin grunts due to her feet kick into Fenri's metallic face as she follows up with double upwards kick before fire a fire gem to him, which Vulturon and Hyenard took notice of it immideatly.
"Did you see that?" Vulturon asked, just in case of he didn't see wrong.
"Yeah, a red gem that resemble the one that we deliver to her." Hyenard anwser, seeing it as well.
"You think that those jewel contain magic?" Vulturon asked as Fenri stands up and deliver a slash to Rin, who takes it before attack back.
"I think so too." Hyenard anwser as Fenri tries to retaliate with an Ax kick but Rin stops it in time and use the oppurtunity to punch him in the stomach.
"You have some fighting spirit there, Rin." Fenri compliment.
"You too." Rin says.
"But let see if you can dodge this or not? Oowwwwww!" Fenri shouts as he jumps up and roll into a ball and dash at Rin full speed, who was barely able to dogde it in time before Fenri makes a turn back at Rin to damage her from behind succesfully.
"Ghh!" Rin grunts at the full blown of Fenri's spin attack as he looking at her smirkly while she stands up.
"What's wrong? Can't handle my attack?" Fenri asked smirkingly, try to throw her off for another oppourtunity of attacking.
"Gghh! Not an inch." Rin says painfully as she runs up to the wolf and deals a bunch of slaps to him before punch him with some magic in the stomach once again.
"Oww." Fenri grunts, been caught off guard by the sudden attack of Rin before decide to slash her once again, which she blocks it in time. The wolf was in bad shape so he needs to create an advantage for himself as fast as he can so Fenri decides to try and punch her in the face, which she dodges in time.
"Alright, time to use that move!" Fenri shouts as he leaps back before jump up, creating ice versions of himself under beneath him, which Rin can see of the animal and robotic traits of the clones that Fenri tries to hide but didn't pay attention to it and Vulturon and Hyenard to caught off guard. Not that it's because of the move, they already know it before hand. But it's because of he use it at this time like this agaisnt a person who's not even know her full strengh at all.
'H-he can create ice wolfs to fight him. This is going to be hard.' Rin thought in fear before remember the simmilarities between the clones and Fenri himself 'Why do they look simmilar to Fenri? Unless…'
"I think he's desperate to beat her, Boss." Hyenard says, looking at the timer to see a minute 5 seconds have passed.
"I think so too and it's kind of idotic but a wise decision to say the least." Vulturon adds as to which, Hyenard can't help but nods at this as well. Wise for in danger situations and idiotic for showing something that resembles Fenri as well.
"Eat this!" Fenri shouts as he and his clones jumps up and slash at Rin, who able to dodge it for him and one of his clones as well but couldn't dodge the third one.
"Gggh!" Rin grunts as she stands up before being recieve a triple kicks from Fenri and his clones, making her in serious pain but not out yet. She promise to herself that she will find Ragna and be with him, and she will do whatever it takes even eduring all the injury that she's suffer.
"What's wrong, Rin? Can't keep up with the anymore?" Fenri taunts, thinking that this is over at long last "Why don't you just give up already? You cleary can't beat me so run away when you have chance."
"To hell with that, you doggo!" Rin screams while still standing, which make Fenri angry. No one dares mock him without a piece of his mind at all.
"Alright, you'll ask for it!" Fenri says as he and his clones charging in line to Rin, ready to show her a taste of her medicine. Unkown to them however, this is what she wanted and Fenri's about to taste his own.
"You…" Rin says slowly as she grabs 2 gems from her pocket before shouted "Fall to my trap!" As she position The gems to eachother as they start fire a big beam of light to Fenri and his clones, all of which been hit by the beam due to not able to dogde it in time, leaving Fenri to be injured a lot and the clones being destroyed as a result.
"Wow, that's powerful and imppresive." Vulturon says in surprise of what he just saw. Among the time he was living, whether it was in his birthworld or this world, he never get a chance to see a beam attack ever in his life.
"Yeah, it is indded." Hyenard says, fel the same way as well about the attack.
"Now who's the one sttrugling now?" Rin asked, sastified now that Fenri's in the same condition as her.
"That may hurt a lot, but I've bet this will be much worse!" Fenri anwser as he creates ice waves from his wrists simmoutanesly, but Rin able to dogde all of it before putting a hand on Fenri's chest which make him, Vulturon and Hyenard confuse at this.
"What are you trying to pul-" Fenri asked, wonder what she was doing but was intterupted as Rin apply force into her hand, knock Fenri out of consious and his body start to fall.
"Have a taste of this!" Rin shouts as she uses the oppourtunity to swipe Fenri's leg before lay out an elbow and other blows to him before finish with a punch full force to send the wolf in a nearby tree, damage him a lot as he struggle to stand up to continue to battle.
"Gghhh!" Fenri grunts, disbelief at the fact Rin was able to beat him this badly as he struggle to stand up with his own legs before the injury succumb to him, making the wolf fall down into the field.
(End song)
"This battle is over! Rin wins!" Hyenard shouts to end the fight as he stops the timer while Rin was hugging her arm, happy that she won with all of the pain she's been enduring.
"I, I win!" Rin says, excited that she's able to pass the test and get a chance to go to Ragna's world as Vulturon makes his way to her, slowly clapping his hand as he goes.
"Well done, mate! You able to prove yourself of going to other worlds now!" Vulturon congratulate, happy that she's pass the test.
"Thanks!" Rin says, a smile on her face as Fenri sits back up, looking very upset about his defeat but decide not to show it as he stands up, walks toward Rin and held a hand towards her.
"You're alright, I guess." Fenri says grugdingly as Rin accepts the hand and do a handshake.
"Thank you for the compliment." Rin says cheerfully as the two separate their hands and look back at Vulturon and Hyenard, the latter gives Rin her luggage back.
"impressive!" Hyenard says amaze "Not only you're able to defeat Fenri, but you also did it in 2 minutes and 10 seconds!"
"What!" Fenri shouted, shock at the Magi girl was able to beat him in such a time. Normally, people who able to beat him takes 3-4 minutes, so for her to surprass that time is insane in his mind.
"Now, are you ready to go to the other world?" Vulturon asked Rin.
"Y-yeah, I am!" Rin says as she, Vulturon and the other two make their way to the portal. Once they're went inside, they were return back to the labortory as Hyenard close the portal.
"So this is how you're guys able to go to my world, huh?" Rin asked in amaze as she looks around the technology that's been provide in the lab.
"Yup, that's how we able to get to worlds." Vulturon anwser as he looks at the clock "It's getting late, so we should get some rest until we can go."
"Sure, but I have something to ask you first." Rin says.
"We can talk abou it in the living room." Vulturon says as the four of them went up to the stars to the livng room. Once they make up there, the trio of reploids make their way to the couch and sit on there and Rin take a look around the living room for a bit as she turns her gaze back to Vulturon and his group before taking a seat "Are you guys human or something else entirely?"
"Gaahhh!" Hyenard and Fenri gasped in shock at the question. How could she think of something like that as Vulturon put a hand on his beak, whether or not to anwser it or not.
"And what makes you think of that in the first place, Rin?" Hyenard asked, wonder when she first have the thought but he has the feeling in where she gets that.
"When I talk to you in the first time, I feel like I wasn't talking to a human but an animal instead." Rin anwser remembers the hint of animal inside the Hyena's word before she turns to Fenri "When he summons the ice wolfs, I see the smiirlarity between him and the wolfs and it's almost close. It make me feel like they're not wolfs, but clones instead so I was if you guys are humans or not."
That got Vulturon to think deeply into this much futher before letting out a sigh as he looks up at he and anwser "Well, I know this is going to happen sooner or later so I just said it to get this overwith: Yes, we're not humans in this world, we're Beastkin instead!"
"Beastkin?" Rin asked, wonder what that term means.
"Essentianly, that is a term used on people who are more animal like than human like." Vulturon anwser, think back of the definition when someone ask about him for the first time.
"There's also 'Demi-Human', which is the opposite of what Beastkin is as well." Hyenard added, want to clarify when Rin will meet a Demi-Human as well.
"So if I get this right, animals in this world gets adapted to their surroundings that they start to grow like humans and vice versa for the Demi-Human as well, right?" Rin asked.
"Well, you could say that for the Beastkin but the Demi-Human on the other hand, not so much." Vulturon anwser, which make Rin confuse.
"What do you mean by it?" Rin asked.
"But before we get to that, I guess we have to show our looks then." Vulturon says as he, Hyenard and Fenri took off their disguise to let Rin look at what they look like.
"Wow, you weren't kidding." Rin says in shocked of the sight 3 Beastkins that are standing as she notice the robotic parts of them from Hyenard's shoulders, Fenri's metallic fur and Vu "Wait, why do you guys have mechanical parts in your body as well?"
"Well, that's unexplainable." Fenri anwser, tries to make Rin not think about that anymore but the girl didn't let that effect her at all.
"Why it isn't unexplainable; I mean if you're born with it in the first place then I can understand but you guys are cleary have them in some point in your life sp when do you guys have them?"
"I guess we have to tell you everything, right?" Vulturon says, felt like there's now way out of this as Rin nods at this before he anwser "Alright, just for you only: We're not orriginally from this world at all."
"W-what?" Rin asked shockingly.
"Yeah, we're orriginally from a different world before we come here!" Fenri anwser.
"But why would you guys want to be here in the first place?" Rin asked confusingly.
"It's complicated." Vulturon anwser simply with a sigh.
"Why is it so complicated?" Rin asked, more confuse about this.
"Because the next thing I'm gonna say will blow your mind all together when pile up with everything else so I'm gonna let you have some time before telling you the reason!" Vulturon anwser, don't want to do just that snf try to comfort Rin.
"Yeah, you can tell me another time then!" Rin says, aggre with what the Vulture said as she doesn't want to deal with shocking facts anymore.
"Now as for your question from before, Beastkin hide themseves for years until a certain event when they have no choice but to reveal themselves while Demi-Humans were created during that event as well." Vulturon anwser, switching topics to make Rin feel better.
"A certain event?" Rin asked, wonder how one event in time can do both of those things in the same time.
"Ye and let's just say, that event is where the world has to be reset due to the destruction that event left behind for a century." Vulturon anwser, don't want to give out way too much detail here.
"That's sad." Rin says, sad for Ragna's world.
"Yeah, it is indeed and even with that and what's happening now, I feel much more safer here than in my world." Vulturon says, don't want to go back to his birthworld anytime soon.
"What happened there that make you say that?" Rin asked. How could the Vulture say such a thing in the first place.
"War, that's why." Vulturon anwser simply.
"War?" Rin asked, wonder why a simple world is use to describe. Sure, his birthworld maybe in war but doesn't mean he can live back there peacefully.
"Yeah, in every generation of my world, there's basically a war between reploids and Mavericks all over the world no matter what happens." Vulturon anwser, remember about the histories of the countless wars that happen around that world.
"Not only that and we're victims in them as well, but the mastermind want to either create a new world for themselves." Hyenard added, remember how Sigma planted the Maverick virius on him before mumble quietly "Sorry, Axl. I fail you."
To Hyenard, It felt very tragic that he has to be killed by his own former member. Ever since his organaztion, the Red, pick Axl up as a member, they include Hyenar that treat him like a son so for him and the organazation later to be betrayed due to them being corrupted by the Maverick Virius felt sad when he didn't realize his mistakes in the first place.
"Or just want revenge on it by destroy it or what not as well." Fenri finsh, remember that he use to work for one before his time has come and work with new boss.
"Basically, we never want to go back to our world again. Who knows what other evil force will cause another war to happen." Vulturon says.
"That sounds tragic." Rin says sadly, which Vulturon nods in aggrement before she remembered something "Wait, what do you mean by 'what's happening right now'?"
"I tell you and the rest in our journey tommorow so wait until then." Vulturon anwser, feeling like it's getting late.
"Yeah, we should." Rin says as everyone gets up on their seats and to her surprise; Fenri and Hyenard dissapeared through the ground, leaving her speechless.
"If you're wondering what just happened: I'm a necromancer and they're part of the people I brought back tempolary." Vulturon explains what just happen as Rin nods in understand; she has read a few books about necromancy beforehand so she can understand that part as Vulturon leads her to the guest room.
"Here's where you'll be sleeping for the night." Vulturon says as he opesn the door to reveal a room with 2 beds, 2 nightstands next to the bed with simple design all around.
"Alright, I can accept this." Rin says, find the rooom to be allright.
"Well, good night." Vulturon says as he walk away.
"Goodnight." Rin says as she close the door and went into changing into her pajamas while Vulutron went back to his room as the two sits on their bed respectively.
"This is gonna be an intteresting journey/I will get to see you again, Ragna." Vulturon and Rin says as they slept for the night.
A/N: And that will be the end of the story. This one felt like it's taking forever in my opinon but I was able to pull through to complete this. Anyway, there are some references that I left on this chapter so hope you guys able to find all of them correctly. Since Vulturon loves music, what do you guys want to see him sing next? I have some in my mind but I'm not too sure on them so let me know the comments below. See you guys next time!